Ageing Healthy: Perceptions of Older Persons, Community Members, and Other Stakeholders in Uganda by Eunice L. Kyomugisha MA, Rachel King PhD, Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi PhD, Susan Nakkazi MA, Carol Brayne PhD, Louise Lafortune PhD

“…Emotional perceptions were a stress-free life with children’s care, a balanced diet, basic needs and activity involvement. …”
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Youth Awareness of Facebook Users’ Data Commodification and its Business Model by Abigail Boima, Toks Oyedemi

“…While studies have examined youth’s awareness of risks in online engagements, there are limited studies on youth’s awareness of the commodification of their information and target advertising directed at them as a trade-off for ‘free’ access to online platforms. This study investigated if educated youth with Facebook accounts in South Africa were aware of this commodification process and that Facebook uses their information for advertising revenue. …”
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A General Fourier Formulation for In-Plane and Out-of-Plane Vibration Analysis of Curved Beams by Rui Nie, Tianyun Li, Xiang Zhu, Huihui Zhou

“…This paper constructs a calculation model that can study the in-plane and out-of-plane free and forced vibrations of curved beam structures under different boundary conditions. …”
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Origen and Plato on the Superiority and Perfection of the Soul by Zhimeng Lin

“…This suggests that humans are capable of both good and evil, a potential grounded in free will rather than the sin of the body. Nevertheless, Origen assigned the body a more important role, asserting that the Incarnation not only depended on the body but also facilitated the practice of virtue, positioning the body as central to his theory of resurrection. …”
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The Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes to Treat Diabetes Mellitus by Ju-El Kim, Jong-Won Lee, Gi Doo Cha, Jeong-Kee Yoon

“…In recent studies, mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-derived exosomes, which are being investigated clinically as a cell-free therapy for various diseases, have gained attention due to their biomimetic properties that closely resemble natural cellular communication systems. …”
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COSMC-Regulated O-Glycosylation: A Bioinformatics-Driven Biomarker Identification for Stratifying Glioblastoma Stem Cell Subtypes by Sara Sadat Aghamiri, Rada Amin

“…Moreover, Cosmc was associated with shorter progression-free intervals, suggesting its potential as an indicator of aggressive disease. …”
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Mathematical Modeling for Pharmaco-Kinetic and -Dynamic Predictions from Controlled Drug Release NanoSystems: A Comparative Parametric Study by Grigorios P. Panotopoulos, Ziyad S. Haidar

“…We employed the χ2 minimization method and concluded that the Korsmeyer–Peppas model (or power-law model) provides the best fit, in all cases (the minimum value of χ2 per degree of freedom; χmin2/d.o.f. = 1.4183, with 2 free parameters or m = 2). Hence, (i) better understanding of the exact mass transport mechanisms involved in drugs release and (ii) quantitative prediction of drugs release can be computed and simulated. …”
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Advancing Shannon Entropy for Measuring Diversity in Systems by R. Rajaram, B. Castellani, A. N. Wilson

“…The comparison shows that Cc is a vast improvement over H as it provides a scale-free comparison of these diversity distributions and also allows for a comparison between parts of these diversity distributions.…”
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Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Risk of Melanoma by Joanne M. Jeter, Joseph D. Bonner, Timothy M. Johnson, Stephen B. Gruber

“…Three hundred twenty-seven subjects with incident melanoma and 119 melanoma-free controls completed a structured interview assessing melanoma risk factors. …”
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Hypospermia Improvement in Dogs Fed on a Nutraceutical Diet by Francesco Ciribé, Riccardo Panzarella, Maria Carmela Pisu, Alessandro Di Cerbo, Gianandrea Guidetti, Sergio Canello

“…Further investigations on a wider cohort of dogs might be useful to better correlate the presence of oxytetracycline in pet’s diet and the onset of infertility and clearly assess the action mechanism of an oxytetracycline-free nutraceutical diet.…”
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Cognitive flexibility in urban yellow mongooses, Cynictis penicillata by Mijke Müller, Neville Pillay

“…Such flexibility is important in urban settings where environmental changes occur rapidly and continually. We studied whether free-living, urban-dwelling yellow mongooses, Cynictis penicillata, in South Africa, are cognitively flexible in reversal learning and attention task experiments (n = 10). …”
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Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review by Georgios Koukourakis, Nikolaos Kelekis, Vassilios Armonis, Vassilios Kouloulias

“…High-dose-rate (HDR) afterloading brachytherapy in the management of localised prostate cancer has practical, physical, and biological advantages over low-dose-rate seed brachytherapy. There are no free live sources used, no risk of source loss, and since the implant is a temporary procedure following discharge no issues with regard to radioprotection use of existing facilities exist. …”
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Catalytic Transformation of Tall Oil into Biocomponent of Diesel Fuel by Jozef Mikulec, Andrea Kleinová, Ján Cvengroš, L'udmila Joríková, Marek Banič

“…One of the conventional kraft pulp mills produce crude tall oil which is a mixture of free fatty acids, resin acids, sterols, terpenoid compounds, and many others. …”
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SNP_TATA_COMPARATOR: Web SERVICE FOR COMPARISON OF SNPs WITHIN GENE PROMOTЕRS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN DISEASES USING THE EQUILIBRIUM EQUATION OF THE TBP/TATA COMPLEX by D. A. Rasskazov, K. V. Gunbin, P. M. Ponomarenko, O. V. Vishnevsky, M. P. Ponomarenko, D. A. Afonnikov

“…Data of individual deviations from the reference human genome (Ensembl, rel. 68, i.e. the variant of human genome commonly accepted as datum in comparison analysis) are accessible for free in the real-time mode. Also, data from the GENCODE database (rel. 17) are automatically invoked. …”
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The effect of excipients on the stability and aerosol performance of salmon calcitonin dry powder inhalers prepared via the spray freeze drying process by Poursina Narges, Vatanara Alireza, Rouini Mohammad Reza, Gilani Kambiz, Najafabadi Abdolhossein Rouholamini

“…Aerosol performance showed that the Tween-free powders produced higher fine particle fraction values than the formulations containing Tween (53.7 vs. 41.92 % for trehalose content and 52.85 vs. 43.06 % for maltose content).…”
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Web Accessibility Analysis of Massive Open Online Courses in Mathematical Disciplines by E. A. Kosova, M. Yu. Khalilova

“…Using the browsing of MOOCs platform catalogues, a total of 56 Russian-language free MOOCs in mathematical disciplines hosted on 5 platforms has been received. …”
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An Integrated Approach of Video Game Therapy^®: A Case Study by Maura Crepaldi, Francesco Bocci, Marcello Sarini, Andrea Greco

“…This approach uses commercial video games, which are generally free or available at a relatively low cost. These games possess many essential functions that make them practical as preventive tools or support for integration into traditional therapies. …”
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Padding-enabled real-time high-fidelity temporal single pixel imaging by Ryota Keyaki, Jin Matsuno, Susumu Fukatsu

“…Our sparse recovery more than addresses these issues by eliminating one of two arms central to TGI, which allows moving beyond compressive TGI. Real-time noise-free high-fidelity temporal single pixel imaging is achieved by implementing a sacrificial time pad that flexibly and efficiently absorbs a sparsity-defying bias existent even under structured illumination. …”
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Modeling and analysis of taeniasis and cysticercosis transmission dynamics in humans, pigs and cattle by Joshua, A. Mwasunda, Jacob I, Irunde, Damian, Kajunguri, Dmitry, Kuznetsov

“…The analysis shows that both the disease free equilibrium (DFE) and the endemic equilibrium (EE) exist. …”
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Sub-THz Characterisation of Monolayer Graphene by Ehsan Dadrasnia, Sujitha Puthukodan, Vinod V. K. Thalakkatukalathil, Horacio Lamela, Guillaume Ducournau, Jean-Francois Lampin, Frédéric Garet, Jean-Louis Coutaz

“…We also show that these parameters can, however, be measured with higher resolution using a free space continuous wave measurement technique associated with a vector network analyzer that offers a good dynamic range. …”
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